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2011 Census of Canada: Topic-based tabulations

Topic-based tabulation: Detailed Mother Tongue (232), Detailed Language Spoken Most Often at Home (232), Other Languages Spoken Regularly at Home (9) and Sex (3) for the Population Excluding Institutional Residents of Canada, Provinces, Territories, Census Metropolitan Areas and Census Agglomerations, 2011 Census

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Sex (3)

Detailed language spoken most often at home (232)

This table details detailed mother tongue , detailed language spoken most often at home , other languages spoken regularly at home and sex for the population excluding institutional residents in Penticton^{Footnote 1}
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Other language spoken regularly at home (9)
Detailed mother tongue (232)	Total - Other language spoken regularly at home	None	English	French	Non-official language	English and French	English and non-official language	French and non-official language	English, French and non-official language
Total - Detailed mother tongue	41,845	39,320	745	350	1,365	5	5	50	0
Single responses	41,390	38,985	720	325	1,310	10	5	40	0
English	36,200	35,685	25	180	285	0	0	20	0
French	725	515	65	130	5	0	0	0	0
Non-official languages	4,465	2,780	625	10	1,020	5	5	15	0
Aboriginal languages	75	45	10	0	25	0	0	0	0
Algonquian languages	15	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Algonquin	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Atikamekw	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Blackfoot	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cree languages	10	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cree, n.o.s.	10	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Swampy Cree	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Plains Cree	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Woods Cree	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cree, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malecite	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mi'kmaq	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Innu/Montagnais	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Naskapi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ojibway	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Oji-Cree	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Algonquian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Michif	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Athapaskan languages	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Carrier	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wetsuweten	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chilcotin	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dene	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tlicho (Dogrib)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gwich'in	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
North Slavey (Hare)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
South Slavey	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Slavey, n.o.s.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sarcee	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Beaver	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sekani	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kaska (Nahani)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tahltan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Northern Tutchone	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Southern Tutchone	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tutchone, n.o.s.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Athapaskan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Haida	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Iroquoian languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mohawk	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cayuga	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Oneida	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Iroquoian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kutenai	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Salish languages	60	35	5	0	20	0	0	0	0
Shuswap (Secwepemctsin)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Thompson (Ntlakapamux)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Halkomelem	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lillooet	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Okanagan	55	30	5	0	15	0	0	0	0
Squamish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Straits	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Salish languages, n.i.e.	5	5	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Siouan languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dakota	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Stoney	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Siouan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tlingit	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tsimshian languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gitksan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nisga'a	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tsimshian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wakashan languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Haisla	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Heiltsuk	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kwakiutl (Kwak'wala)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wakashan languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Inuit languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Inuktitut	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Inuinnaqtun	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Inuvialuktun	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Inuit languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Aboriginal languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages	615	330	90	0	185	0	0	0	0
Italian	175	100	20	0	55	0	0	5	0
Portuguese	290	165	35	0	85	5	0	0	0
Romanian	10	5	5	0	5	0	0	0	0
Spanish	135	60	35	0	40	0	0	0	0
Catalan	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Romance languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages	1,625	1,065	135	5	400	5	5	5	0
Dutch	320	200	25	0	90	0	5	0	0
Flemish	10	10	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Frisian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
German	1,150	755	95	5	290	5	5	0	0
Yiddish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Scandinavian languages	115	95	0	0	15	0	0	0	0
Danish	65	45	0	0	15	0	0	0	0
Icelandic	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Norwegian	15	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Swedish	30	30	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afrikaans	30	10	10	0	5	0	0	0	0
Germanic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages	10	5	5	0	5	0	0	0	0
Gaelic languages	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Welsh	5	5	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Celtic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages	565	400	40	5	115	0	0	10	0
Belarusian (Byelorussian)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bosnian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bulgarian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Croatian	50	30	5	0	15	0	0	0	0
Czech	65	40	10	0	15	0	0	0	0
Macedonian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Polish	105	65	10	0	25	5	0	5	0
Russian	100	75	5	0	20	0	0	5	0
Serbian	15	5	5	0	5	0	0	0	0
Serbo-Croatian	5	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Slovak	30	20	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Slovenian	20	10	0	0	10	0	0	0	0
Ukrainian	170	150	0	0	20	0	0	0	0
Slavic languages, n.i.e.	10	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Baltic languages	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Latvian	5	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Lithuanian	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Greek	60	35	10	0	20	0	0	0	0
Armenian	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Albanian	10	5	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Georgian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Finno-Ugric languages	200	140	15	0	50	0	0	0	0
Estonian	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Finnish	40	25	5	0	10	0	0	0	0
Hungarian	160	105	15	0	40	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages	5	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
Azerbaijani	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turkish	5	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
Turkic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mongolian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages	25	20	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Berber languages (Kabyle)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Cushitic languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Oromo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Somali	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages	25	15	0	0	10	0	0	0	0
Amharic	5	5	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Arabic	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hebrew	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Maltese	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tigrigna	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Semitic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Afro-Asiatic languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages	725	420	220	0	85	0	0	0	0
Indo-Aryan languages	700	415	210	0	80	0	0	0	0
Bengali	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Gujarati	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hindi	20	5	10	0	5	0	0	0	0
Konkani	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Marathi	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Panjabi (Punjabi)	665	400	195	0	75	0	0	0	0
Sindhi	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sinhala (Sinhalese)	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Urdu	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Nepali	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Iranian languages	15	10	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Kurdish	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pashto	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Persian (Farsi)	15	10	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Indo-Iranian languages, n.i.e.	5	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Kannada	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malayalam	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tamil	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Telugu	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Dravidian languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Japanese	40	25	5	0	10	0	0	0	0
Korean	45	25	15	0	5	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages	175	105	40	0	30	0	0	0	0
Chinese languages	170	100	40	0	35	0	0	0	0
Cantonese	45	35	5	0	5	0	0	0	0
Chaochow (Teochow)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fukien	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Hakka	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mandarin	25	10	10	0	5	0	0	0	0
Shanghainese	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Taiwanese	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Chinese, n.o.s.	95	50	25	0	20	0	0	0	0
Tibetan languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Burmese	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sino-Tibetan languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tai languages	35	15	5	0	15	0	0	0	0
Lao	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Thai	35	15	5	0	15	0	0	0	0
Austro-Asiatic languages	70	35	20	0	10	0	0	0	0
Khmer (Cambodian)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Vietnamese	65	35	20	0	10	0	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages	150	85	15	0	55	0	0	0	0
Bisayan languages	10	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Ilocano	5	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Malay	5	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Pampango	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Tagalog (Pilipino, Filipino)	125	75	15	0	45	0	0	0	0
Bikol	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malagasy	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fijian	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Pangasinan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Malayo-Polynesian languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Akan (Twi)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages	5	0	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
Lingala	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rundi (Kirundi)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Rwanda (Kinyarwanda)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Shona	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Swahili	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ganda	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bantu languages, n.i.e.	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Edo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Igbo	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Wolof	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Bamanankan	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ewe	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ga	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Niger-Congo languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
African languages, n.i.e.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Creoles	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Non-verbal languages	15	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
American Sign Language	0	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Quebec Sign Language	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Sign languages, n.i.e.	15	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Other languages	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multiple responses	450	340	25	30	55	0	0	5	0
English and French	105	75	5	30	0	0	0	0	0
English and non-official language	320	245	20	0	55	0	0	5	0
French and non-official language	20	15	0	0	5	0	0	0	0
English, French and non-official language	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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Footnote(s)

Footnote 1: Data quality index showing a global non response rate higher than or equal to 5% but lower than 10%.

2006 adjusted count; most of these are the result of boundary changes.

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Source: Statistics Canada, 2011 Census of Population, Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 98-314-XCB2011041.

Date modified:: 2020-04-18

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